- Dec 9 Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, work with split-brain research), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1994)
- Dec 11 Joe Coral [Joseph Kagarlitski], British bookmaker (Gala Coral Group), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1996)
- Dec 11 Marge [Marjorie Henderson Buell], American cartoonist (created Little Lulu), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)
- Dec 15 Kermit Bloomgarden, American producer (The Diary of Anne Frank; The Music Man), born in NYC, New York (d. 1976)
- Dec 15 William Hitzig, Austrian Maxwell physician, born in Austria (d. 1983)
- Dec 16 Edward Morris Bernstein, American economist (US negotiator at Bretton Woods conference and establishment of IMF), born in New Jersey (d. 1996)
- Dec 17 Paul Cadmus, American etcher and painter (Sailors & Floozies), born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)
- Dec 20 Hans Burkhardt, Swiss-American abstract artist, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1994)
- Dec 22 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, French physicist (Nobel 1970), born in Lyon, France (d. 2000)
- Dec 24 Herbert D. Riley, US Navy vice-admiral (WW II, Guadalcanal, Okinawa), born in Maryland, United States (d. 1973)
- Dec 24 Joseph Moses Juran, Romanian-born American industrial engineer and philanthropist, born in Brăila, Romania (d. 2008)
- Dec 25 Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1999)
- Dec 26 Alenjo Carpentier, Cuban-French writer (Guerra del Tiempo), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1980)
- Dec 28 Clabon Allen, Australian astronomer (University of London Observatory director, wrote "Astrophysical Quantities"), born in Subiaco, Perth (d. 1987) [1]
- Dec 28 Sergei Yutkevich, Russian film director (Otello, Banya), born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1985)